216 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. _ [1839, 
old fellow, a hard-featured chap, who managed to 
speak a little English and talked to me of the year 
he spent at Sir J eek Banks’ in bygone times. We 
went through the garden, which is finely situated, 
covers wiv ground, and has fine trees, but is wretch- 
edly cared for; in fact it is almost left to run wild, 
although well endowed. . . . I have some curious an- 
eedotes to give you about the censorship of the press 
at Vienna, but have not energy enough left to write 
this evening. 
Thursday evening. — Nothing can be printed and 
published here, without first being examined and ap- 
proved by a censor of the press. The government 
appoints four or five persons in Vienna, who examine 
in different departments, one for newspapers, one for 
works of science! others for different branches of lit- 
erature. Every author must send his manuscript to 
the police-office, whence it is handed over to the proper 
censor, who certifies that it contains nothing immoral, 
nothing against the government, and that it is good 
literature, or science, or poetry, as the case may be, 
and worthy of being published ; ; it is then returned to 
the author, with permission to print it. The author’s 
annoyance does not end here. He is obliged to leave 
a copy of his manuseript with the police, and a copy 
of the work as soon as printed, so that they may be 
compared, and any alterations or additions detected. 
If he desires to make any alterations in his manuscript 
after it has passed the censorship, he must send it 
back for a second examination. Persons holding 
responsible official situations are not exempt: if a 
censor himself wishes to publish anything, his manu- 
script must be given to the police that it may be ex- 
amined by some other censor. All kinds of works, 
